PeelerSheila

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Same!

I want to thank everyone for the insightful, thoughtful and very personal responses that were shared to my comment yesterday evening. Reading through that thread again this morning I'm deeply touched, and once again so happy to be part of a group of people who are so sharing of their knowledge and experience. Thankyou very, very much 🥹

I think that'll be my overall plan. Let her grow how she will, and just be there for her. Ultimately, as long as she has loving and mutually respectful relationships with people, that's what I care about the most.

I like your historical perspective (wigs, gents?) and the difference between feeling like you're either in the wrong body or not aligned with society's version of gender. I feel like that part is really important and something everyone has to explore for themselves, as Miniest will.

It is a lot better that they can discuss things more openly now, and they know so much more than I did and at a younger age too (Elder had a friend in primary school, at around grade 5 iirc, who knew they were pansexual and I had to ask him what it meant.. even Miniest in grade 3 knew lol). They talk about it a lot more than I thought they would too, and certainly with more accurate knowledge than I and my peers did that's for sure!

I can relate to what you said about being comfortable as a woman only after you dropped the stereotypes of what it means. I remember spending time looking in the mirror as a teen, wondering if I was meant to have been born male and I was somehow a mistake.

Thankyou for sharing your experiences, I've experienced just a little bit of that wealthier class judgy normy girl expectations stuff and my god can they be bitchy! I'm loving how in this thread we've all been through painful experiences but all come through it with our own strength of opinion about ourselves and our identities and what works for us.

The whole gendered toys thing shits me, always has. Some people just don't get it; my MIL always bought her a doll where you're supposed to style it's hair and put makeup on it, and it'd be Elder who tried to learn to do hair with it as his hair was frequently the longest in the house but he lacked the dexterity to style it himself 😆 Generally it seemed to me that girl toys were about boring stuff like playing "house" or "mummy," whereas boy toys were about building and conquering worlds and exciting stuff.

I appreciate your thoughts. The gender stuff is really silly and arbitrary.

I appreciate your thoughts 💜